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exercise 5b Spot the phrase. How are these expressed in the text?
1. a better than average chance of getting work after graduatio
2. an impressive range of skills
3. a real edge when competing with graduates from other disciplines
4. a period of further study and work experience
5. enhance their employability
6. the largest increase in vacancies
7. demand is strong
8. higher unemployment rates
9. stand out in the labour market
exercise 5c Translate the following questions. Take turns in asking and answering them in pairs.
1. What helps graduates (to) stand out in the labour/job market?
2. Do you think it’s more important to acquire skills that can be applied to many jobs/professions than to focus on being excellent at one thing?
3. Which graduates have the highest unemployment rates and which are easily employable?
4. Which industries do you believe will have the largest increase in vacancies in the next 10 years and why?
5. What would you be willing to do to enhance your employability if your degree wasn’t enough/sufficient?
exercise 5d Fill in the missing words and prepositions.
1. Graduating from university doesn’t necessarily guarantee a graduate-level job.
2. According to experts, there are certain things that will make you more desirable
3. on/in the job/labour market. Graduates who have the abilities to
4. work in various fields are much more likely to find jobs
5. compared to/with graduates with a more limited
6. range of skills. Naturally, young people prefer to study things they are genuinely
7. interested in, but it would make sense to consider fields where there seems to be
8. an increase in / a growth in the number of vacancies. Of course, there are plenty of other factors that
9. contribute to a person becoming employed. Graduates
10. benefit greatly from work placements which
11. provides them with hands-on experience that they can later
12. build on. It might be
13. beneficial for you to consider studies that
14. report on graduate destinations, but to what degree would you be willing to
15. move into a career solely 16. based on its employment rates?
1. a better than average chance of getting work after graduatio
2. an impressive range of skills
3. a real edge when competing with graduates from other disciplines
4. a period of further study and work experience
5. enhance their employability
6. the largest increase in vacancies
7. demand is strong
8. higher unemployment rates
9. stand out in the labour market
exercise 5c Translate the following questions. Take turns in asking and answering them in pairs.
1. What helps graduates (to) stand out in the labour/job market?
2. Do you think it’s more important to acquire skills that can be applied to many jobs/professions than to focus on being excellent at one thing?
3. Which graduates have the highest unemployment rates and which are easily employable?
4. Which industries do you believe will have the largest increase in vacancies in the next 10 years and why?
5. What would you be willing to do to enhance your employability if your degree wasn’t enough/sufficient?
exercise 5d Fill in the missing words and prepositions.
1. Graduating from university doesn’t necessarily guarantee a graduate-level job.
2. According to experts, there are certain things that will make you more desirable
3. on/in the job/labour market. Graduates who have the abilities to
4. work in various fields are much more likely to find jobs
5. compared to/with graduates with a more limited
6. range of skills. Naturally, young people prefer to study things they are genuinely
7. interested in, but it would make sense to consider fields where there seems to be
8. an increase in / a growth in the number of vacancies. Of course, there are plenty of other factors that
9. contribute to a person becoming employed. Graduates
10. benefit greatly from work placements which
11. provides them with hands-on experience that they can later
12. build on. It might be
13. beneficial for you to consider studies that
14. report on graduate destinations, but to what degree would you be willing to
15. move into a career solely 16. based on its employment rates?